Lewis Hulse Noe (1849 - 1931)

Born 8 Feb 1849 in Sayville, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, USA

Husband of Mary E (Baker) Noe — married 1870 in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York

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Died 17 Mar 1931 at age 82 in Sayville, Suffolk, Long Island, New York, USA

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Suffolk County News - March 20, 1931 - Page 1 and 8

LOUIS H. NOE PASSES AWAY

Cival War Veteran Died on Monday at Age of 82

NEWS WRITER 40 YEARS

Served in Navy with Henry M. Stanley And Brought Him to Sayville after War - Was Member of Explorer's First Expedition to Asia Minor

Louis H Noe, a native son and lifelong resident of Sayville, and one of our best known citizens, passed away early on Tuesday morning at his home on Foster Avenue, a few days past his 82nd birthday. He was a son of the late Thomas Noe who lived on Main street on the spot where Goodman's store now stands, and that was his birthplace. His wife, whose death preceded his by less than three months, was Emma, daughter of James and Rebecca Havens Baker, a native of East Patchogue whom he married nearly 61 years ago. He was barely 21 at the time of their marriage, and his bride was not quite 16.

Mr Noe was the last of a dozen young men who went from Sayville to the Civil War, and the last survivor here of that great conflict, with the exception of Daniel Murdock, who although a native of Long Island, was not in early life a resident of Sayville.

Mr Noe, although he had not been robust for many years, enjoyed fairly good health until within the last year, but when his beloved wife passed on in December last he declared that he had no desire to live longer. He had been confined to his bed for the past month, but was conscious until the last, and called the members of his family about his bedside shortly before he died.

He had an adventurious career and for 40 years was local correspondent for the Brooklyn Times and occasionally did work for other metropolitan newspapers, as well as for the Associated Press. For the first ten years of this newspaper's experience he wrote regularly for The News, and in more recent years was a frequent contributor to its columns. No man was more thoroughly conversant with the early history of Sayville and its surrounding territory.

During the Civil War Mr Noe served both in the army and the navy, and at the battle of Fort Fisher was special messenger to Commander Joseph Lanman on board the frigate Minnesota, one of the fleet of 53 Federal ships which took part in the terrific bombardment of that fortress. During his service in the navy Noe was a shipmate of Henry M. Stanley, who was ship's clerk on board the Minnesota, and later won world fame as an African explorer. Directly after the war Stanley came to Sayville to the home of his young friend while they planned an expedition through Asia Minor to India, a projected journey of some 5000 miles; but because of Stanley's brutal treatment of the natives, as Noe always contended, the exploring party was placed under arrest and the expedition came to grief. The members of the party spent some time in Turkish dungeons loaded down with chains. Stanley's appeals to the American consul finally secured their release, although Noe frequently remarked that at the time he never expected to see Sayville again.

Before their arrest Stanley's expedition had covered a distance of about 1000 miles in Asiatic Turkey, starting from Constantinople and on through the Caucasus Mountains to Blussa near Mount Olympus, where members of the party were entertained at the home of an American missionary. After their release from Turkish prisons Stanley and Noe visited the ruins of ancient cities and the craters of several extinct volcanoes. Noe blamed Stanley severely for the latter's inhuman treatment of the natives which was the cause of their suffering and privation in Turkish prisons. After Stanley's exploring trip to the heart of Africa to find Livingstone and his return to America from an expedition financed by James Clordon Bennett and the New York Herald, Mr Noe published letters and communications in various New York newspapers attacking Stanley, and interviews with the Sayville man, and accounts of his explorations in Asia Minor received wide publicity, After the death of Stanley, who had been knighted by the British crown, emissaries from Lady Stanley, the explorer's widow, came to this country and to Sayville to interview Mr Noe, and from him obtained material, some of which was used in a biography of Stanley.

Mr Noe was one of the organisers of the Sayville Hook & Ladder Company, nucleus of the Sayville Fire Department, and played the tenor drum in the first band organised in this village. His long experience as a newspaper correspondent brought him in contact with many people of prominence, and his anecdotes of early days in Sayville were highly entertaining.

He is survived by one sister, Mrs James P. Conklin of Carman street, Patchogue, and by three daughters, Mrs Grace Feidmeier, who has cared for him devotedly since the death of her mother; Mrs G Schenck Van Siclen of Brooklyn, and Mrs Percy Webber of this village, from whose home, 80 Greely avenue, the funeral services are to be held this afternoon at 2;30 o'clock. They will be conducted by the Rev. Martin O. Olsen, pastor of the M. E. Church. Interment will be in the family plot in the Union Cemetery.

Sources

• 1850 census: United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC1T-9M8 : accessed 24 April 2016), Lewis H Noe in household of Thomas I Noe, Islip, Suffolk, New York, United States; citing family 16, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• 1860 census: "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCHR-Y9X : accessed 24 April 2016), Lewis H Noe in entry for Thomas J Noe, 1860.

• 1865 census: "New York State Census, 1865," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVNV-FQTW : accessed 24 April 2016), Lewis H Noe in household of Thomas J Noe, District 01, Islip, Suffolk, New York, United States; citing source p. 30, line 3, household ID 142, State Library, Albany; FHL microfilm 2,057,294.

• 1870 census: United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8KL-4PB : accessed 24 April 2016), Lewis H Noe, New York, United States; citing p. 12, family 94, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,600.

• 1880 census: United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZNM-ZMS : accessed 24 April 2016), Lewis Noe, Sayville, Suffolk, New York, United States; citing enumeration district ED 321, sheet 301A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0935; FHL microfilm 1,254,935.

• 1900 census: United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSGN-4GK : accessed 24 April 2016), Lewis H Noe, Islip Township, Election District 5, Suffolk, New York, United States; citing sheet 7B, family 164, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,241,166.

• 1910 census: United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M59N-LC1 : accessed 24 April 2016), Lewis H Noe, Islip, Suffolk, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 1372, sheet 6B, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,375,095.

• 1920 census: United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVSG-P81 : accessed 24 April 2016), Lewis H Noe, Islip, Suffolk, New York, United States; citing sheet 5A, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,821,269.

• 1930 census: United States Census, 1930", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X4YC-FFS : accessed 24 April 2016), Louis H Noe, 1930.

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